Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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“amounts” is a form of

amount

/əˈmaʊnt/ noun, verb

Forms amounts amounting amounted

  1. noun The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English). “The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.”
  2. noun A quantity or volume. “Pour a small amount of water into the dish.”
  3. noun (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
  4. verb (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate. “The money in my pocket amounts to three dollars and change.”
  5. verb (intransitive, followed by to) To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of. “He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.”
  6. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.

Synonyms

sum sum of money amount of money measure quantity total number add up come

Etymology

From Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To go up; to ascend. [Obs.]
  2. verb To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; --with to or unto.
  3. verb To signify; to amount to. [Obs.]
  4. noun The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.

Etymology [OF. amonter to increase, advance, ascend, fr. amont (equiv. to L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See Mount, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “amount”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “amount” (best matches first).

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